The digital condition : class and culture in the information network /
The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century-- developments which make up the concept of the "digital"--Has brought us to what might be the most contradictory moment in human history. The digital revolution ha...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century-- developments which make up the concept of the "digital"--Has brought us to what might be the most contradictory moment in human history. The digital revolution has made it possible not only to imagine but to actually realize a world in which social inequality and poverty are vanquished. But instead these developments have led to an unprecedented level of accumulation of private profits. Rather than the end of social inequality we are witness to its global expansion. In The Digital Condition, Rob Wilkie advances a groundbreaking analysis of digital culture which argues that the digital geist--which has its genealogy in such concepts as the "body without organs," "spectrality," and "différance"--has obscured the implications of class difference with the phantom of a digital divide. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 239 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823234240 082323424X 9780823269006 0823269000 0823241521 9780823241521 |